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“All the world’s a stage” is a phrase we usually associate with Shakespeare and his plays. Did Shakespeare coin this phrase, was it used by his contemporaries or do its origins in fact go back further? In how far was this concept of ‘the world being a stage’ taken up in post-Shakespearean times?
This paper is an attempt to find out the actual origins of this phrase and point out how it was used throughout the centuries.
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- Marlissa Gerken (Author), 2002, All the World's a Stage, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/91793
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